Dangasaur

You sure you aren't doing something like sizing a 9mm case with a 40 S&W die?

1st. what crimp die are you using? 2nd. you need to adjust the crimp die with a bullet seated and measure before/after to make sure you aren't changing the OAL 3rd. if your cases are over belled then you will have to lower the die stem further to take out more bell 4th. the "crimp" on 9x19 should just make the mouth of the case have no gap around the bullet doesn't need to be biting into it I use the Dillon die set. I bought the press with it as my starting caliber. Gotcha on the bullet seating thing. I will sacrifice a lot of bullets but I can always separate them later. I guess I can also look and check to make sure the case is not biting too hard into the bullet, correct? I am not planning to shoot my first batch until next week, anyway, I am in no hurry. I have a few commercial boxes to go through. You don't have to sacrifice anything. Take one round, size/deprime, skip priming, skip powder, seat a bullet, then with the same case just keep running it through the crimp station over and over until the die is adjusted and the case looks good. Then, verify in a single pass with another case/bullet. That's only two that you have to pull. If you are doing this on a progressive disable priming, disable powder, and disable case feeding until you can take a case and bullet and make it all the way around and still be in spec. Then, unfortunately, you will have everything set up for just one case when the reality is that you will have all stations full when loading progressively. This will throw things off a bit, typically you will get longer OAL and potentially less crimp with all stations full. This isn't a huge deal because with 9x19 an oal variance of .005 isn't going to end the world but still be aware that there's usually a tweak or two that you do once every station is full. The first few rounds of each session might come out a few thousands long and a smidge less crimp but just gauge them and go.

1st. what crimp die are you using? 2nd. you need to adjust the crimp die with a bullet seated and measure before/after to make sure you aren't changing the OAL 3rd. if your cases are over belled then you will have to lower the die stem further to take out more bell 4th. the "crimp" on 9x19 should just make the mouth of the case have no gap around the bullet doesn't need to be biting into it

Under 8 cents may be tough to do without ordering extreme bulk or using lead. Since you just want to use them for range and practice you could shoot lead. Missouri Bullet Company has 9mm lead for $.06 http://www.missouribullet.com/details.php?prodId=146&category=9&secondary=8&keywords=

The Lee FCD won't "hit" every round. Set up per the directions, mine only touches a case mouth every now and then. I assume this is due to slight variations in brass thickness.

On my LNL AP I had to clean, clean, and clean some more to get the powder measure throwing consistently. All the packing oil that's put on the inserts, and linkage, and rotor ect. find their way to the path of the powder. One good test is throw a charge then put your hand under that station and tap on the press and if any powder falls down then you have static and oil to get rid of. Everything should be death valley dry and use the dryer sheet method to go over every piece of hardware that interacts with the powder.

Just get a copper wire, speaker or otherwise, and attach a "banana plug" to it. That will fit in snugly with the grounding pin in a 3 prong socket. Now you don't have to worry about any hot wires. Also, this all sounds like a lot more work then wiping down a powder measure with a dryer sheet. My press was grounded for a while but I found that it was no substitute for the dryer sheet workover that the powder measure gets a couple times each season.

What issues did you have? I'm having problems where if I cycle at a pretty steady pace it fails to eject shells and very rarely doesn't index. If I cycle slowly then it ejects just fine but this seems much slower than videos I've seen online. Maybe I should give Hornady a call and see what's up.

I don't have an older #8 plate to compare to. I'll take a high res picture when I get home with something to show scale.

I saw several posts regarding 9mm shell plates that didn't allow 100% reliable feeding from the LNL case feeder. The #8 (9mm) shell plate that I picked up today has this on the packaging: "New & improved design functions flawlessly with the Lock-N-Load Case Feeder" I picked the plate up at Cabelas in KC KS.

Yeah I think that if he released a parts list and some dimensions this would be a really common modification. The Lee feeder and collator are only about 35 bucks combined. The remainder of the parts look pretty basic, some track, guide rod(s) and you are done.

I really like the look of this homemade case feeder for the LNL. I can't see this being to hard to make. Anyone here do something similar?

www.summitgunbroker.com I win.

With improved accuracy comes improved confidence. Confidence is key. And I just wanted to add something to what Jar said. When I first started shooting pistols a more experienced friend of mine gave me a drill to improve accuracy. -start with 4 10 round magazines -place target at 17 yards fire 10 shots, STOP -place target at 25 yards fire 10 shots, STOP -place target at >35 yards, 50 if you can, fire 10 rounds, STOP -place target at 17 yards fire 10 shots What this did for me is trick my brain into thinking that the 2nd presentation of the 17 yard target was much bigger than it actually was. It looked like the side of an airplane hanger after watching it get smaller and smaller out to 50 yards. This really helped me with accuracy.

10 gallon bucket with some foam adhesive weather stripping around the rim. Start tumbler and put bucket on top of it. Wife didn't like the noise and now she can't even tell when it's on. Only thing that you should think about is the extra heat that the bucket traps. My Lyman gets warm when using this method so I run in the basement where it's about 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the house. I would encourage all of you that have an open top tumbler to use the bucket to see how much dust they give off. The first time I used the bucket there was a thick layer of dust and soot on the tumbler that otherwise isn't there without the bucket... food for thought.